Senior Staff AI Platform Engineer

Fivetran, Inc.; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 232,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance (100% employer-paid)

Paid time off and holidays

Professional development and training

Team events and virtual happy hours

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health support resources

Job summary

Fivetran is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Oakland, CA. You will lead the engineering behind our internal AI-powered app ecosystem, architecting reusable libraries and governance for AI-enabled webapps.

This full-time hybrid role partners with stakeholders to productionalize apps, improve security and reliability, and guide engineering leadership on AI usage across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software industry experience
• Experience designing reusable libraries and experimentation platforms
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud security concepts
• Ability to write well-structured, performant code
• Ability to lead software and infrastructure design
• Experience in code reviews, troubleshooting and testing
• Proficient in Java, C++, or C#
• Hands-on cloud and container experience (Docker, K8s)
• CI tools like BuildKite
• Observability tools a plus (New Relic, Grafana)
• Experience with AI code assistants and AI-enabled development

Responsibilities

• Independently design and implement features to create scalable distributed data pipelines on the cloud
• Develop, maintain, and test code
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Collaborate with product managers, customers, and engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable products
• Address performance and scalability challenges
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Participate in hiring processes
• Make Fivetran the most reliable and secure data infrastructure component

Skills

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Leadership

Code reviews

AI-assisted development

Tools

Python

TypeScript/React

BigQuery

Claude API

Agent SDK

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

BuildKite

New Relic

Grafana

Job description

Fivetran is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Oakland, CA. You will lead the engineering behind our internal AI-powered app ecosystem, architecting reusable libraries and governance for AI-enabled webapps.

This full-time hybrid role partners with stakeholders to productionalize apps, improve security and reliability, and guide engineering leadership on AI usage across the SDLC.